Suspensory bandage



T. W. HE'INEM ANN. SUSPENSORY BANDAGE.

(No Model.)

Patented June 16,1891.

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UNITED STATES THEODORE IV. HEINEMANN, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

SUSPENSORY BAN DAGE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 454,168, dated June 16, 1891.

Application filed March 24, 1891. Serial No. 386,262. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, THEODORE W. HEINE- MANN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, Cook county, Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Suspensories for the Testieles, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to the shaping of the testicle-sacks of suspensories, and in describing the same Iwill refer to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 represents a top view of the several parts as they are when at first put together, with a portion of the binding a removed so as to show the tape B on the inside. Fig. 2 represents an edge View of the same. Fig. 3 represents a front view of the finished testiclesack. Fig. 4 represents a side view of the same.

Similarletters refer to si niilar parts throughout the various views.

I take an oblong pieceAof awoven or knitted fabric, which may have double-welt edges, hemmed edges, self-edges, or bound edges. In the drawings this pieceAis represented as havingbound edges, (marked a.) Into one of these bound edges a,wh1ch I will call the front edge (while I will call the other edge a the back or posterior edge,) openings are made at each of the two places marked a. Through one of these openings a one end of the tape B is drawn in between the upper and the under fold of the binding a, passing along be tween the two folds until it reaches the other opening a, where it passes out and is cut off in such a way as to leave a length of about two inches of tape hanging out beyond each of the openings at. I then take two strong double threads 0. In one end of one of these double threads 0, I make a firm large knot. I then take the other end of it and put it through the eye of a needle. By means of this needle I then draw this double thread 0 first through the binding at c on the left-hand side of Fig. 1, and then in and out through the meshes of the material A at right angles with the bindings a until the needle comes out through the posterior binding a at c, where I cut off the double thread 0 in such a manner as to leave a short piece hang out-beyond the posterior binding a at c. I then go through exactly the same operations for the other double thread 0, only that this time I do it on the right-hand side in Fig. 1. Next the tape B is drawn as tight as required for the purpose of puckering the front binding a, and when this has been puckered sufficiently the ends of the tape B are tied into a bow, as shown in Figs. 3 and 4. In this manner the front binding a between the two openings a is made to assume the circular shape D, (shown in Figs. 3 and 4,) which is the most suitable shape for the penis-holes of testicle-sacks. Next the strings O are pulled so as to produce a series of folds nearlyparallel to the bindings a, and by this operation joined to the forming of the penis-hole D in the manner just described. The lower portion of the piece A is made to assume that ball or pouch shape of testicle-sack which is shown at letter E in Figs. 3 and 4:. Similar results can be obtained if the operations hereinbefore described are Varied in any of the following ways, viz: if the outhanging ends of the tape B are fastened by sewing or gluing,if the piece A has self-edges and at same time the tape B is made to pass in and out of the meshes of the material of A very close to the front self-edge, or if the front ends of the strings C are fastened by sewing or tying them directly to the material of A, or if elastic cord or flat elastic is substituted for inelastic tape, or if double welts or hemmed edges are used instead of bound edges in the piece A.

I am aware that long before my invention puckering or gathering has been applied to a great variety of purposes and uses in the mechanical arts, and I do not claim to have invented any of these.

I am also aware of the following modes of making testicle sacks for suspensories in which puckering is one of the operations or one of the results, viz.: puckering the posterior binding or sometimes the double welts or the hems of pieces intended for testicle-sacks, forming the penis-hole out of two separate semicircular-shaped edges folded or puckered and afterward bound with elastic braid,

and forming testicle-sacks out of pieces into the edges of which rubber threads have been knitted, which'has the effect of puckering the pouches; but in all these ways of making testicle-sacks the operations as well as the results obtained are not at all similar to my in- ICO gle oblong piece and a tape or cord B, extendin g along a portion of one of the longer edges of said. piece to draw that portion into a complete circle to form a penis-hole, and cords 0, extending across the rectangular pieces at right angles to the tape or cord B to pueker the neck of the pouch above the penis-hole, 20

substantially as shown and described.

THEODORE \V. HEINEMANN.

Witnesses:

FRANK. II. KRIBS, GUSTAV BAUER. 

